Programme - Friday 7th January
15.00 to 16.00
Keynote: The Lures and Horrors of Enchantment - Naomi Waltham-Smith
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Drawing on the reflections of feminist thinkers Anne Dufourmantelle and Hélène Cixous on both the power and also the suspicion of enchantment, the lecture teases out the role of the musical, the sung, or the rhythmical in three political moments of enduring contemporary significance. The first complicates classical analyses of the role of technÄ“ and technology in dis- and re-enchantment. The second addresses the much decried contemporary crises of democratic disenchantment through the lens of theories of mimesis. Finally from twin psychoanalytic and decolonial perspectives, the lecture analyses enchantment as a fantastical power over life and death.
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Naomi Waltham-Smith is Reader in the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies at the University of Warwick. Working at the intersection of continental philosophy with music and sound studies, she is the author of Music and Belonging Between Revolution and Restoration (Oxford UP, 2017), Shattering Biopolitics: Militant Listening and the Sound of Life (Fordham UP, 2021), and Mapping (Post)colonial Paris by Ear (Cambridge UP, forthcoming). She has been awarded fellowships at the Penn Price Lab for Digital Humanities, Akademie Schloss Solitude, and the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg.
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We had originally planned for this Friday afternoon lecture to take place in person, at Kingston University's campus. Due to rising Covid-19 case numbers and the government's advice to work from home where possible, we felt it was the best decision to run this 'Congress launch' lecture online instead. We were excited to finally be welcoming Techne students to an in-person Congress event for the first time in two years, but we look forward to seeing you all at the summer Congress instead. We hope you enjoy this lecture in online format instead, and that you can join us for a virtual drinks reception afterwards (see below).
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16.00 to 17.00
Congress Virtual Drinks Reception
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Although we've had to move this session online we still wanted to include a space for attendees to chat informally together, so we have set up a virtual drinks reception on Gather. You can find out more about using Gather here. Grab yourself your drink of choice, and join us in our virtual bar to say hi!